DENVER (KDVR) — It’s one of Colorado’s famous leaf peeping spots, and after illegal parking disrupted Guanella Pass Road last fall, the Clear Creek Sheriff’s Office is already emphasizing legal parking practices.
On Sunday, deputies had 12 vehicles towed and issued about 50 tickets for illegal parking on Guanella Pass, the sheriff’s office said in a post on X.
Parking on the road is illegal because emergency vehicles need space to access the road. The vehicles parked illegally on the road on Sunday forced the typically two-lane road to operate as a one-lane road, meaning that drivers traveling in opposite directions were only using one lane and would be driving directly head-on with incoming traffic.
A one-lane road would force emergency vehicles to have to wait for traffic to alternate before they could make it safely through the gap.
The Clear Creek Sheriff’s Office posted this notice:
- Vehicles parked in no-parking zones will be ticketed
- Vehicles parked in areas where parking is allowed, but still stick out in the roadway, will be ticketed
- Vehicles parked directly in the roadway will be towed
The sheriff’s office said it will be actively patrolling the area and enforcing legal parking from now until the end of leaf-peeping season.
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